The Colorado Independent

Friday, February 10th, 2012

delegation

Colorado GOP swing-district candidates already dodgy on ‘personhood’

By | 01.12.12 | 1:06 pm

Federal presidential-election-year campaigns are heating up in Colorado now that the boundaries of the state’s congressional districts have been updated. Yet, so far, Mike Coffman and Scott Tipton, the Republican representatives of new more-competitive districts Six and Three, have yet to articulate for the record their stands on “personhood,” the hard-line anti-abortion proposition that has become a litmus-test issue in Colorado after having landed on the ballot as an initiative in the last two general elections and after clearing hurdles to speed toward the ballot again this year.

New rule would make it easier for immigrants to apply for legal status

By | 01.06.12 | 1:12 pm

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) introduced a proposed rule change today that would allow immigrants with U.S. citizen spouses to submit a waiver of inadmissibility before returning to their country to attend their immigrant visa interview.

Coffman, Gardner mute on 2012 Personhood Amendment, as initiative advances

By | 01.06.12 | 8:35 am

Even as Colorado’s review board for ballot initiatives has approved the wording of the proposed personhood amendment, and the race is on to find enough signatures to put it on the November ballot, Colorado Republican U.S. Representatives Mike Coffman and Cory Gardner have yet to state whether they will support the initiative this year, as they did in 2010.

From Oklahoma to the end of the world: the 6th-10th most read stories of 2011

By | 12.26.11 | 5:30 am

Every year (and a lot more often actually) we take a look at which stories people read, which stories bring rushes of eyeballs to the site. Sometimes our most important stories get the most traffic, but a lot of times it is fun stories, off-beat stories that attract the most readers. We all know that car crashes and sex scandals sell newspapers.

Colorado Dems pile on Romney for lack of leadership during payroll tax-cut stalemate

By | 12.22.11 | 1:23 pm

Colorado Democrats today joined the Obama administration in going after Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney for calling a payroll tax extension for 160 million Americans a “temporary little Band-Aid.”

Udall statement on death of Kim Jong Il

By | 12.19.11 | 12:32 pm

Senator Mark Udall released this statement today, on the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il: “Kim Jong Il was a tyrant who severely oppressed his own people and threatened the world with his pursuit of nuclear weapons. North Korea was never going to change radically under his rule, and so the isolated country now has an opportunity to re-engage with the world. However, we’re entering a dangerous phase, in which one tyrant may well be replaced by another.

Udall introduces bill to ensure that Americans cannot be held indefinitely without charges

By | 12.16.11 | 3:14 pm

Today, Senator Mark Udall, a member of the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence committees, announced that he has joined Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein in introducing the Due Process Guarantee Act of 2011, to clarify that American citizens apprehended inside the United States cannot be indefinitely detained by the military.

VIDEO: Polis questions Holder on medical marijuana

By | 12.09.11 | 4:44 pm

Colorado Congressman Jared Polis wasted no time in taking advantage of his appointment to the Judiciary Committee. Thursday Polis sat down with Attorney General Eric Holder and asked whether the Ogden memo was still in effect.

GOP Medicare troubles continue: Sham front group gives Tipton seniors award

By | 12.09.11 | 2:31 pm

Freshman Colorado Congressman Scott Tipton received an award recently for his work in support of senior citizens from a group called RetireSafe. Tipton was one of 20 Republicans elected to Congress from swing districts to have received the award, according to RollCall, but the award was fake, or at least, the group that gave the award was fake.

VIDEO: Coffman called to answer for Perry’s anti-gay ad

By | 12.09.11 | 9:49 am

For Rep. Mike Coffman, R-CD6, signing on as Texas Governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry’s Colorado chairman probably seemed like a smart move back when Perry went from announcing he was running to being the front-runner in a matter of hours. Today, maybe not so much.

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